What are you working on?

[mankrip]

The ghost monsters idea seems pretty nice, Ajay.

[qbism]

[goldenboy]

Ajay, about rain putting out the fire, it wouldn't necessarily do that if the fire is fed by gasoline. The flame would just go smaller, redder, and would smoke more.

[ajay]

Tried the rain globally. Too much slowdown, even for light rain. I am looking into more dynamic, localised rain though; future_stuff!
In the meantime, I've been playing with skyboxes: http://earthquakemod.wordpress.com/2013 ... 3_08_2013/

[ceriux]

ajay i bet if you were to open this skybox up in photoshop and mess with the hues/brightness it might look pretty nice.

[ajay]

I think you could be right. I need to have a play with it.

[frag.machine]

Good luck finding a city at night skybox. I've been looking for that a long time without success.
But I liked the ones with storm clouds, even if they don't set the correct mood for your mod. I suppose "london" with some thin, dark distant fog would look quite spooky.

[r00k]

i think ive seen a city scape at night unless im thinking of duke nukem

[leileilol]

Half-Life has a peculiar-looking cityscape-at-night skybox

[mankrip]

[leileilol]

An issue with mapmodels is PVS - you don't want them to disappear if their origin is blocked from view, do you?

[frag.machine]

[Seven]

[ajay]

Thanks chaps. The lamp posts are not models as you've guessed; they're the third iteration of them and the most complex and best so far and are not entirely unlike some uk lamp posts. I think the scale's off, but the generally shape isn't too far away. I would prefer them to be mdls, but, although I've dabbled with blender, I still suck at modelling. Oh for an easy .map to .mdl program.
As far as the mod goes, I've had a significant breakthrough, narrative wise, that's going to help me push on with the rest of it. There's some coding implications, especially some CSQC that I'll need to learn, but that's no bad thing Happy days

[Spike]

those lampposts can't be from the UK. there's too many of them. and too many of them are actually working. also they don't have nearly enough random useless signs stuck to them.